At 9:01 AM -0600 11/8/06, David Giragosian wrote:
tedd,
Does Daylight Savings alter Zulu time? (I'm guessing "yes"). How did the
military deal with that?
LOL -- do you think that the military gives a hoot about daylight
savings time? That's one of those civilian things. In military time,
Oh Dark Thirty, is $#%# early regardless of what civilians do. :-)
I use a date-time field as a primary key in db tables that get an insert a
minute. I had to jump through a number of hoops to turn off DST on the (RH
Linux) server.
If it was critical to have a absolute date/time stamp, such as in a
patient's registration on an organ transplant list, then I would hope
that the people in charge would work with an absolute time and not
one subject to DST or even subject to which time zone the patient is
located. Sometimes even seconds count for selecting which patient is
entitled to the transplant.
If they don't use an absolute time, then it would be better for a
patient to register for a transplant on the west coast (or even
further west) than the east coast, and that doesn't sound right, does
it? But, I don't specifically know what method they use. Any idea?
tedd
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